Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conant stressed particularly the latter, which characterizes capitalism by worker oppression, class struggle, and continual depression-inflation cycles, since many may believe such analysis, although not the dialectical and historical materialism theory...
...police troopers. The gang, which included Ned's brother Dan, bulletproofed themselves in massive vests beaten out of plowshares and canlike helmets. Staging holdups on a grand scale, the gang was generous with its loot, reserved its gunfire primarily for the police, and acquired the aura of latter-day Robin Hoods...
...done, RFC fell on evil ways after its reconversion tasks were completed. Private lenders complained bitterly to Congress that RFC was making many questionable business loans as political favors. Snake farms, luxury hotels and fancy gambling halls applied to-RFC for loans, and got them. In the latter days of the Truman Administration, congressional investigators unraveled before the nation's scandalized eyes a network of influence-peddling that led in and out of the White House offices, the RFC and the halls of Congress. Finally, in 1953, Congress ordered RFC to make no further loans and to wind...
Sylvia Short, as Queen Isabella, sometime object of a faded emotion, gave one of the show's finest performances in her wistful role--despite her phony French accent. The latter, shared by Peter Donat in his interpretation of Piers Gaveston, is more forgiveable because it is called for in Treece's stage directions. But it is as historically anachronistic as it was poorly done...
Lucas Hoving and Lavina Nielsen danced their own "Satyros," a hilarious spoof devised for a frothy Poulenc trio for piano, bassoon and oboe (the latter exquisitely played by Robert Freeman '57). The piece de resistance was Limon's own "Emperor Jones," a 20-minute ballet based on the O'Neill play. The choreography is inspired and Pauline Lawrence's costumes superb. The prolific Heitor Villa-Lobos composed the magnificently frenetic score. This ballet concert marked a tremendous improvement over the one presented last year...